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10,000 Roman coins unearthed by amateur metal detector enthusiast… on his first ever treasure huntPretty neat indeed. Tell me the guy in the picture doesn't remind you a bit of Dudley Moore. ;D
Amazing, Britain is just lousy with great finds. What Luck!Poor Dudley Moore, yes he does look like him.
I wonder if the guy will ever see any gain from his find? Aren't the excavation and antiquities laws in Britain pretty stringent?
In my recent numismatic “research”, these finds are rather common and not worth a lot of money. Unless any of these are rare and in mint condition, this guy will probably have these on ebay for $25 per lot of a hundred or something like that. By the way, did I tell you about my Constantine I coin from 324-325 AD and Hadrian foiree I just bought? If I knew foiree meant 'forgery' I wouldn't have purchased it. It's still minted around the same period, just not an official Hadrian empire-sanctioned coin.
Here's another reason:Largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon treasure found in UKThe article says that it could be worth seven figures...but that would only be icing on the cake. Maybe that should be the field of history I get into....fun and lucrative. ;D
BBC News Hour (NPR) did a story on same… condemned by an anthropologist or archaeologist for messing up real science.
They condemned the guy who made the find? I agree that more could have been learned had he called in the professionals after making the first find…but part of me dislikes it when the professionals rain on the parades of private citizens who are digging on their own (or a friend's) property.
Might mess up science but my bet is sour grapes.Question is: why didn't they get there first? Think they didn't guess the site important enough?
England is, like most of Europe, lousy with artifacts. People have been squatting in Europe for so long that people just stumble on stuff. That is why Britain has the Treasure law. There is just so much stuff to be found. Here in germany for example, the US Army just discovered some Roman Ruins as they building a new Family Housing Complex. Ruins are everywhere. That is why I will be taking a metal detector to Koniggratz with me this weekend. I dont know what I will find but I am pretty sure I will find something.
I actually had to cut my trip to Koniggratz short because my Father-in-Law passed away and we had to leave. A frustrating day all around, first we could not get a cell phone signal and then when we got one around noon it was only to get the news of his passing. I will go back to Koniggratz probably in April or May after the snow melts. I have no desire to traipse around a battlefield in the middle of winter, especially when the battle itself was fought in July.
I'd get a metal detector to try and find something like this. Check out the notes:
In 1902, a landowner working on his property accidentally discovered a subterranean built tomb covered by a tumulus (mound). His investigations revealed the remains of a parade chariot
(by the way, I might be going to the Metro Museum of Art in Dec, first time in NYC too)
Here is another story of a large find – a 350 lb. pot!
One of the largest ever finds of Roman coins in Britain has been made by a man using a metal detector.
